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As We Approach Election Day…

Regardless of your political views, participating in the voting process in any election period is and always should be considered important and serious business. We need to take voting and the voting process personally because the results of an election may on some personal level, affect each of us either directly or indirectly.

It has never been my style as a member of the electorate and certainly not as a non-candidate for political office, to ever tell other members of the electorate/other non-candidates whom or what to vote for or against. (I simply think that sort of thing is tacky.) However, there can be negative consequences when one either refuses or does not exercise his or her given right or privilege to vote. Voting in an election – which is a very simple yet silent exercise of free speech, is one of the American freedoms which no eligible and registered-to-votecitizen of the United States ever ought to take for granted.

With all of us having been bombarded with a shitload of political ads over the past six months or so (with many of them consisting of downright deceptions, lies, half-truths or exaggerations), I don’t see anything wrong with posting a little lite humor as Election Day 2018approaches. This photo/meme I found on the web gave me a chuckle. I thought it reflected one humorous example – although a bit biased, of the negative consequences of not voting.

I’m sure you already know and perhaps may have experienced a number of others.

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I’m so happy to live in Oregon – always! But with the vote by mail system we have, there’s really no muss and no fuss to casting our ballots. No need to arrange time off from work, no worry about the weather on Election Day…just pour a glass of wine, get out your crayons and fill that ballot out! Slap a stamp on it and toss it in outgoing before the deadline, or drop it off at a collection box – my preference – and you’re done!
Easier than early voting, even.
Good luck to us all across the nation on Tuesday as polls are tallied!